SQL Syntax error - can't find the error [closed] - mysql

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CREATE TABLE 'categories'(
'id' SMALLINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
'category' VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY ('id'),
UNIQUE KEY 'category' ('category')
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
CREATE TABLE 'orders' (
'id' INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
'user_id' INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
'transaction_id' VARCHAR(19) NOT NULL,
'payment_status' VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL,
'payment_amount' DECIMAL(6,2) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
'payment_date_time' TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY ('id'),
KEY 'user_id' ('user_id')
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
CREATE TABLE 'pages' (
'id' MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
'category_id' SMALLINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
'title' VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
'description' TINYTEXT NOT NULL,
'content' LONGTEXT NOT NULL,
'date_created' TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY ('id'),
KEY 'category_id' ('category_id'),
KEY 'creation_date' ('date_created')
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
CREATE TABLE 'pdfs' (
'id' SMALLINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
'tmp_name' CHAR(40) NOT NULL,
'title' VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
'description' TINYTEXT NOT NULL,
'file_name' VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL,
'size' MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
'date_created' TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY ('id'),
UNIQUE KEY 'tmp_name' ('tmp_name'),
KEY 'date_created' ('date_created')
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
CREATE TABLE 'users' (
'id' INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
'type' ENUM ('member','admin') NOT NULL,
'username' VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
'email' VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL,
'pass' VARBINARY(32) NOT NULL,
'first_name' VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
'last_name' VARCHAR (40) NOT NULL,
'date_expires' DATE NOT NULL,
'date_created' TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
'date_modified' TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
PRIMARY KEY ('id'),
UNIQUE KEY 'username' ('username'),
UNIQUE KEY 'email' ('email')
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
.............................................................................
I cannot find the SQL error here.
MySQL said:
#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''categories' ('id' SMALLINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, 'category' VARCHAR(30) NOT' at line 1
Please help. I am using MySQL 4.4.x on a shared server.

Answer 1

You're surrounding your table and column names with ', it should be ` (backtick)
CREATE TABLE `categories`
(`id` SMALLINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`category` VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
UNIQUE KEY `category` (`category`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

Answer 2

Get rid of your single quotes or as #Joachim Isaksson said, use backticks `.
CREATE TABLE categories (id SMALLINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, category VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id), UNIQUE KEY(category) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
Also next time, simplify your problem. You have a problem with the first CREATE TABLE statement. There is no need to print everything else. Also some formatting would be nice too :-).